Letter from the Puerto Rican Organization to Rutgers University Vice President Malcolm D. Talbott, demanding that the University act to meet the needs of the Puerto Rican community. –Credit: John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University-Newark

Statement of demands issued to the United Community Corporation (UCC), Newark’s War on Poverty agency, by 30 Spanish-speaking community leaders in the city. Hilda Hidalgo and Rev. Fr. Mario drafted the statement, which addressed the UCC’s neglect of the city’s poor Spanish-speaking communities. -Credit: Newark Public Library

Statement of demands issued to the United Community Corporation (UCC), Newark’s War on Poverty agency, by 30 Spanish-speaking community leaders in the city. Hilda Hidalgo and Rev. Fr. Mario drafted the statement, which addressed the UCC’s neglect of the city’s poor Spanish-speaking communities. -Credit: Newark Public Library

Mayor Cory Booker and Hilda Hidalgo pose for a photo at the Maria DeCastro Blake Awards Dinner on May 4, 2007. The annual awards dinner is hosted by the Newark Public Library’s New Jersey Hispanic Research & Information Center. -Credit: Newark Public Library

Newark Police Department report on members of the Newark-Essex Chapter of CORE distributing leaflets outside of Hahne’s department store on Broad Street. Members of CORE, led by Fred Means, distributed leaflets to encourage Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities to protest discriminatory hiring practices at the store in 1966. -Credit: Newark Public Library

Newark Police Department report on members of the Newark-Essex Chapter of CORE distributing leaflets outside of Hahne’s department store on Broad Street. Members of CORE, led by Fred Means, distributed leaflets to encourage Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities to protest discriminatory hiring practices at the store in 1966. -Credit: Newark Public Library

Reprint of an article from “Newark! Magazine,” featuring the Greater Newark Urban Coalition and highlighting some of the Coalition’s various actions and accomplishments. Gustav Heningburg was the first president of this coalition of business, community, and political leaders, and served in that capacity for 12 years.

Reprint of an article from “Newark! Magazine,” featuring the Greater Newark Urban Coalition and highlighting some of the Coalition’s various actions and accomplishments. Gustav Heningburg was the first president of this coalition of business, community, and political leaders, and served in that capacity for 12 years.

Brief biography of Ramon Aneses, candidate for Councilman-at-Large, distributed at the Black and Puerto Rican Convention. The Convention was held in Newark from November 14-16, 1969 to formally select the “Community’s Choice” for Mayor and City Council in the 1970 election.